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The captain that was referred to earlier was Capt Carreau. She's about 5 foot nothing and ran us into the ground on our pre-para. Anyone know if any females got loaded on this year? I believe the course list should be out by now.

There was a female in 2008 and 2007.

Yes, I agree, cadets can be very fustrating for many senior cadet NCMs, but sometimes it worth it to stick it out and do both for the betterment of your cadet corps which it seems it why you want to stay. I personally am applying for the reserves and a volunteer at my cadet corps was an ex...

When he first told me about it, he told me that he was pretty sure it was only a 6 week leadership course and 3 years cadet time. But he asked me to bring in my credentials and he'd check to make sure. So I'm not positive whether you need NSCE or not. Might want to check that out. On a side...

The recruiter told me that to get the incentive you need three years in plus a 6 week leadership course including CL and CLI. Not sure what else you need though, he just told me to bring in my cadet credentials and told me that I'd qualified for it once he saw them. I do have NSCE, so I'm not...

It depends on what you want to do. I stayed in cadets an extra year to get my basic parachutist wings. When I took it this year, you were not allowed to be on the course if you were a reservist. The reason being that reservist are not allowed to participate in a CF course unpaid. As it stands...

Yes, non stop.

Yes, shuttle run is gone. Not sure when they took it out though. the longest single run you will probably do is 10km, we never did more then this I believe. the longest we did for the morning run was 8km, but you'll ALWAYS be running. They'll give you timings that will be insanely tight, so...

I did the jump course this summer with cadets. Everything was the same for the PT test except that we didn't have to do the shuttle run. As for the "How much will you have to run in a day" for the actual para, most of the runs are in the morning, if they're in a good mood (A.K.A. you didn't...

What have I gotten out of cadets... wow where to start? I've climbed mountains and glaciers in the rockies for one. Met friends that even though we're provinces apart I can still call up and have a conversation on the phone with. I've learnt skills that no other youth organization could have...

I'm a bit of both, our cadet corp wears old Artillery Patrol Dress (can be seen in the unathorized uniform thread), and in that we wear only rank, NSCE and marksman qualifications. They're for C/Sgts and up, and we only wear those on COs parades and other special occasions. But for my cadet...

My ACO has inspected our cadet corps and she said that they're the same as Rocky Mountain and Connaught pins being worn, officially not allowed, but one of those things they're not really worried about.

Don't give up on that advanced camp yet, if you fall within the age category, have NSCE and can find some way of getting a CO's recommendation then you can do Rocky Mountain with almost no prior camp experience. I went to camp with a guy only Basic Cadet qualified. I myself only have CL.  :o

One of the officers at my cadet corp ran the scuba course so he just gave us the padi scuba pin you can pick up from most dive shops. It's not actually a RCAC pin, it goes under regimental acoutrements or something like that. Rocky Mountain is a National camp, says it in the title, Rocky...

Oh well, I can always try and get them once I'm in, although I've been told that's pretty hard.